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6 Minute Vocabulary from BBCLearningEnglish.com hello and.
Welcome to 6 Minute Vocabulary.
I'm Catherine.
And I'm Neil.
Neil, like your hat.
Thank you very much.
Great.
It's cold outside, so I thought it would be sensible to wear a woolly hat.
Yes, my ears are very sensitive to the cold.
I've noticed your ears looking a little bit red of a morning occasionally, Neil.
And the words sensible and sensitive are good examples of today's topic.
The two words look and sound similar, but they have very different meanings.
And in this program, we're going to talk about more pairs of words that people sometimes get mixed up.
Now, let's hear about Mike.
He was in a shop yesterday when he made a mistake.
Think about this question while you listen.
What mistake did Mike make in the shop?